There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion to what other accomplish, or to the time and opportunities which have been allowed him.